Planwright

Comparison

How Planwright compares to other agent task trackers

An honest, feature-by-feature comparison. We concede where competitors are stronger and win on the rows that matter for regulated teams.

Last reviewed: April 2026

FeaturePlanwrightLinearPlaneWritbaseGitHub Issues + Copilot
Native MCP server

GitHub has community MCP servers; no official first-party MCP for Issues.

Agent as first-class user

Copilot agents can create PRs but can't manage Issues lifecycle natively.

Acceptance-gate workflow

Planwright enforces scheduled → in_progress → acceptance → done. Agents cannot mark work as done without human review. No other tracker enforces this state machine.

Signed audit chain

Planwright: hash-chained, ECDSA P-256 signed via AWS KMS, independently verifiable. Writbase has an append-only event log but no cryptographic signing or public verification. Linear and Plane have activity logs but not hash-chained.

Public trust page

Planwright publishes chain integrity, record count, and the signing public key at /trust/{workspace} — no auth required. Auditors can verify independently.

SOC 2 evidence export

Planwright exports a signed JSON bundle with full audit chain and verification instructions. Plane has SOC 2 Type II certification but doesn't export a customer-specific signed artifact.

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 certified

Plane has SOC 2 + ISO 27001 today. Planwright's SOC 2 Type I is on the Phase 3 roadmap. GitHub (Microsoft) is broadly certified.

SSO (SAML / OIDC)

Planwright SSO is on the Phase 3 Enterprise roadmap.

Self-hosted / on-prem option

Plane and Writbase (Apache 2.0) can self-host. Planwright self-hosted is Phase 3. GitHub Enterprise Server is available for on-prem.

Open source

Plane is open-core (AGPL). Writbase is Apache 2.0. Planwright is SaaS-only today.

Free tier
Agents count as billable seats

None of the major trackers count agents as seats. Pricing is per human.

Supported
Partial
Not available
Planwright differentiator

Where Planwright wins

  • Acceptance gate — the only tracker that enforces human review before agent work reaches “done.” This is the SOC 2 change-approval control point.
  • Cryptographic audit chain — hash-chained, ECDSA-signed records with a public trust page anyone can verify. Not just an activity log.
  • MCP-first ergonomics — tools likeclaim_objective andrequest_acceptancewere designed for an agent's mental model, not wrapped from a human API.

Where competitors are stronger

  • Linear — massive distribution and brand. Most teams default to Linear + their MCP without evaluating alternatives.
  • Plane — already has SOC 2 + ISO 27001 certification. Open-core, self-hostable. Full compliance coverage today.
  • Writbase — Apache 2.0, deploys to Supabase free tier. The free OSS alternative for teams that don't need a hosted service.

Need the acceptance gate and audit chain?

If your compliance team needs cryptographic proof that a human reviewed every agent-generated change, Planwright is the only option that ships it as a core primitive.

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